Bug 2657

Hi Horacio, 

Is this the correct arj archiver : http://sourceforge.net/projects/arj/ ?
Can you please add links for the other file archiver programs you request?

I guess you only want one of them. If you need them all, I think it is better to do separate requests for each of them. With corresponding links, please.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
URL: (none) => http://sourceforge.net/projects/arj/
CC: (none) => m.van.waes

it exists in mandriva 2010.2 !

CC: (none) => philippedidier

(In reply to comment #2)
> it exists in mandriva 2010.2 !

I understand that you want to help, Philippe, thank you.

However, not all packagers are familiar with Mandriva. Towards them it would be nicer to give the upstream link instead of saying that Mandriva has it.

I meant :
1) it's important to have it in mageia1 updates repo
2) we can easily find spec file (to adapt) and patches not to re invent the wheel

here they come as attachments

Created attachment 865 [details]
spec file for arj from mandriva

Created attachment 866 [details]
first patch

Created attachment 867 [details]
2nd patch

Created attachment 868 [details]
3rd patch

Created attachment 869 [details]
arj-3.10.21-debian-arches-align.patch

Attachment 866 is obsolete: 0 => 1
Attachment 867 is obsolete: 0 => 1
Attachment 868 is obsolete: 0 => 1

Created attachment 870 [details]
arj-3.10.2-fix_strnlen_redefinition.patch

Created attachment 871 [details]
arj-3.10.22-fix_format_string.patch

Thx, Philippe :)

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Summary: add arj and other programs for old and new file format archiver => arj, an old and new file format archiver

arj-3.10.22-7.mga2 is in cauldron, so arj will be in Mga2 stable

assigning to maintainer

Assignee: bugsquad => lists.jjorge
Whiteboard: (none) => Mdv, cauldron

arj-3.10.22-7.1.mga1 is now in updates-testing

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
Assignee: lists.jjorge => qa-bugs

The program is shareware.
From http://www.arjsoftware.com/faq.htm#o5
Commercial users must have a registered copy of ARJ to make the ARJ archives.

Shouldn't this program go in Nonfree?

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

(In reply to comment #15)
> The program is shareware.
> From http://www.arjsoftware.com/faq.htm#o5
> Commercial users must have a registered copy of ARJ to make the ARJ archives.
> 
> Shouldn't this program go in Nonfree?

According to http://sourceforge.net/projects/arj/ it's GPL. Maybe it's not the same version ?

CC: (none) => stormi

More info here - http://arj.sourceforge.net/

The open source version is different from the commercial one.

It hasn't been updated since 2005 though so not sure what security implications it will have.

From testing it shows copyright notices from ARJ Software Russia. That does seem to imply this is perhaps not the open source version!

Testing x86_64

$ arj a  xml.arj *.xml
ARJ32 v 3.10, Copyright (c) 1998-2004, ARJ Software Russia. [05 Dec 2011]

Creating archive  : xml.arj
Adding    tst2.xml                    100.0%
Adding    tst3.xml                    100.0%
Adding    tst.xml                     100.0%
     3 file(s)

$ arj l xml.arj
ARJ32 v 3.10, Copyright (c) 1998-2004, ARJ Software Russia. [05 Dec 2011]

Processing archive: xml.arj
Archive created: 2011-12-07 11:37:09, modified: 2011-12-07 11:37:09
Filename       Original Compressed Ratio DateTime modified Attributes/GUA BPMGS
------------ ---------- ---------- ----- ----------------- -------------- -----
tst2.xml             39         39 1.000 11-11-07 12:17:19 -rw-rw-r-- ---   0
tst3.xml             39         39 1.000 11-11-08 00:39:08 -rw-r--r-- ---   0
tst.xml              39         39 1.000 11-10-15 18:03:43 -rw-rw-r-- ---   0
------------ ---------- ---------- -----
     3 files        117        117 1.000

> That does seem to imply this is perhaps not the open source version!

No, this is the open-source version. Please look at the SRPM if you wonder. It is the same source ase Fedora and Debian at least.

CC: (none) => lists.jjorge

Ok.  The http://sourceforge.net/projects/arj/ does have info about
"Migrating from shareware and commercial versions".

When I looked at the list of files installed, I saw the arj-register
command and man page with led me to the http://www.arjsoftware.com/ site.

I'm surprised an open source version would keep the registration command
and info from the shareware version.

Testing complete on i586, where I created, listed the contents of, and
extracted an archive.

Could someone from the sysadmin team push the srpm
arj-3.10.22-7.1.mga1.src.rpm
from Core Updates Testing to Core Updates

Advisory:  This update provides the arj command line archive tool
available in Mandriva 2010.2, but missing from Mageia 1.

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2657

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Update pushed.

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tmb
Resolution: (none) => FIXED